Anyone else experience this?

I was in the middle of drying my hair when all the lights and the power dimmed twice in 2 minutes at about 8.10am

Husband said it was my hairdryer draining the national grid again...... but I thought we might have been in for the full on power cut again!

Yes i`m at work at uni of sheffield ours dipped the same time and set all the burglar alarms off :mad:

yes nearly shut my factory down.

I experienced this.

I was entering invoices into my Sage program and quickly lost my data (before I could save it, grrrr). It happened twice in quick succession at about 8.10am.

Thing is, I'm not in Sheffield 8 but on the border of S10/S6. Even more strange, my light and computer went off but not my radio or the CCTV!! Having said that, this crooked old building is wired up in a most wierd fashion and things like this happen from time to time.

Yep, we're in S8 and experienced the same 2 dips at exactly the same times.

Bit relieved in a sense, as I feared it was just our electrics in trouble! - seems ok now though..

Just heard on Hallam that a pylon is on fire at Parkwood Springs and that 'some people have experienced trips'.

Wahaaaayyyyyy.

Happened in S1.
Just think the Inland Revenue were powerless for a moment;)

Yes we had this too in S11, really you'd have thought they would have kept it to the single digit post codes.

Funny never noticed a thing up at walkley.. and we were up and about at that time

Originally posted by taxman
Happened in S1.
Just think the Inland Revenue were powerless for a moment;)


Sweet dreams are made of this.

Walked into work at 8.30 this morning and my PC wouldn't turn on (apparently we had a surge at some point).

But then it started working 10 minutes later :( :( :(

Also happened in S2 just outside the City Centre, as mentioned im glad it was just a dip b'cos i thought our electrics were a bit jippy as well!

Twice in a couple of minutes!

Matt

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Just heard on Hallam that a pylon is on fire at Parkwood Springs and that 'some people have experienced trips'.



I noticed a lot of smoke coming from that direction earlier.

Glad it's not just us then!

Had a slight moment of panic, cause I'd only dried half my hair! What a tragedy that would have been........!:hihi:

I would have had to have phoned in sick and everything..
"Sorry Boss, can't come in today - yeah - hair emergency"

Unwarranted Frivolity (http://bluebuddies.com/gallery/Smurf_Candy/jpg/Smurfs_Candy_Power_Dips.jpg)

Happened in S6 as well.

I wondered whether I was having some sort of Joe blackout, but then realised it was just the lights.

:)

Originally posted by taxman
Happened in S1.
Just think the Inland Revenue were powerless for a moment;)

I'm curious.

I work at the Home Office at Moorfoot and at 8.10am this morning we had no power problems at all :P

I witnessed it too. my pc died on me :-(

I didn't notice the power dipping but at about that time my DAB radio reception went very dodgy for a little while - maybe the transmitter was losing power?

Originally posted by Jambo
I'm curious.

I work at the Home Office at Moorfoot and at 8.10am this morning we had no power problems at all :P

Strangely it affected the sixth floor only, someone mentioned something about clean power with anti surge properties versus dirty power...or something :confused:

Originally posted by taxman
Strangely it affected the sixth floor only, someone mentioned something about clean power with anti surge properties versus dirty power...or something :confused:

Only the 6th floor in my building? :loopy:

Take it you work in the Inland Revenue then? :)

It affected the train station at Sheffield very briefly - lights barely went out for more than a second but apparantly it set every signal from Chesterfield to Doncaster to red and all trains came to a stop!

Ours diped at ten past three this morning, I was in bathroom and light went realy realy dim for a few seconds then became right bright

dint half make me jump, a tel thee

this happened to me too in S6 i thought we must have a ghost.

The light dimmed and my CD player turned off and on again but the clocks in all the other rooms didn't need resetting. Odd:confused:

Happened northern area of S18 too! It was electrifying!

I heard a report on Look North yesterday that a Pylon had caught fire and caused the problems.

Can someone explain how a pylon catches fire ? The ones across Parkwood are the big metal type, which bit burns?